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In What Ways Were We Warped? | 15 | |
Some Functions of Public History | 25 | |
The Sociology of Historic Sites | 29 | |
Historic Sites are Always a Tale of Two Eras | 36 | |
Hieratic Scale in Historic Monuments | 43 | |
The Far West | ||
1 | Alaska Denali (Mt. McKinley): The Tallest Mountain -- The Silliest Naming | 51 |
2 | Hawaii Honolulu: King Kamehameha I, The Roman! | 54 |
3 | California Sacramento: The Flat Earth Myth on the West Coast | 57 |
4 | California Sacramento: Exploiting vs. Exterminating the Natives | 62 |
5 | California San Francisco: China Beach Leaves Out the Bad Parts | 67 |
6 | California Downieville: Killing a Man is Not News | 70 |
7 | Oregon La Grande: Don't "Discover" 'Til You See the Eyes of the Whites! | 74 |
8 | Washington Cowlitz County: No Communists Here! | 76 |
9 | Washington Centralia: Using Nationalism to Redefine a Troublesome Statue | 77 |
10 | Nevada Hickison Summit: What We Know and What We Don't Know about Rock Art | 81 |
11 | Nevada Nye County: Don't Criticize Big Brother | 84 |
Mountains and Plains States | ||
12 | Idaho Almo: Circle The Wagons, Boys -- It's Tourist Season | 89 |
13 | Utah North of St. George: Bad Things Happen in the Passive Voice | 93 |
14 | Arizona Navajo Reservation: Calling Native Americans Bad Names | 99 |
15 | Montana Helena: No Confederate Dead? No Problem! Invent Them! | 102 |
16 | Wyoming South Pass City: A Woman Shoulda Done It! | 108 |
17 | Colorado Pagosa Springs: Tall Tales in the West | 110 |
18 | Colorado Leadville: Licking the Corporate Hand That Feeds You | 113 |
19 | New Mexico Alcalde: The Footloose Statue | 119 |
The Great Plains | ||
20 | Oklahoma Oklahoma City: The Oklahoma State History Museum Confederate Room Tells No History | 123 |
21 | Kansas Gardner: Which Came First, Wilderness or Civilization? | 126 |
22 | Nebraska Red Cloud: No Lesbians on the Landscape | 127 |
23 | South Dakota Brookings: American Indians Only Roved for about a Hundred Years | 130 |
24 | North Dakota Devils Lake: The Devil is Winning, Six to One | 133 |
The Midwest | ||
25 | Minnesota St. Paul: "Serving the Cause of Humanity" | 136 |
26 | Iowa Muscatine: Red Men Only -- No Indians Allowed | 144 |
27 | Missouri Hannibal: Domesticating Mark Twain | 148 |
28 | Wisconsin Racine: Not the First Auto | 151 |
29 | Illinois Chicago: America's Most Toppled Monument | 152 |
30 | Indiana Graysville: Coming into Indiana Minus a Body Part | 157 |
31 | Indiana Indianapolis: The Invisible Empire Remains Invisible | 161 |
32 | Kentucky Lexington: Putting the He in Hero | 164 |
33 | Kentucky Hodgenville: Abraham Lincoln's Birthplace Cabin -- Built Thirty Years after his Death! | 166 |
34 | Michigan Dearborn: Honoring a Segregationist | 170 |
35 | Ohio Delaware: Who Menaced Whom? | 173 |
The South | ||
36 | Texas Gainesville: "No Nation Rose So White and Fair; None Fell So Free of Crime" | 177 |
37 | Texas Alba: The Only Honest Sundown Town in the United States | 182 |
38 | Texas Pittsburg: It Never Got Off the Ground | 186 |
39 | Texas Fredericksburg: The Real War Will Never Get into the War Museums | 188 |
40 | Texas Galveston: This Building Used to be a Hardware Store | 195 |
41 | Arkansas Grant County: Which Came First, the Statue or the Oppression? | 197 |
42 | Arkansas Little Rock: Men Make History; Women Make Wives | 200 |
43 | Louisiana Laplace: Suppressing a Slave Revolt for the Second Time | 206 |
44 | Louisiana Colfax: Mystifying the Colfax Riot and Lying about Reconstruction | 210 |
45 | Louisiana New Orleans: The White League Begins to Take a Beating | 214 |
46 | Louisiana Baton Rouge: The Toppled "Darky" | 220 |
47 | Louisiana Fort Jackson: Let Us Now Praise Famous Thieves | 227 |
48 | Mississippi Hazlehurst: The End of Reconstruction | 230 |
49 | Mississippi Itta Bena: A Black College Celebrates White Racists | 235 |
50 | Alabama Calhoun County: If Russia Can do it, Why Can't We? | 239 |
51 | Alabama Tuscumbia: Confining Helen Keller under House Arrest | 243 |
52 | Alabama Scottsboro: Famous Everywhere but at Home | 246 |
53 | Tennessee Fort Pillow: Remember Fort Pillow! | 250 |
54 | Tennessee Woodbury: Forrest Rested Here | 258 |
55 | Georgia Stone Mountain: A Confederate-KKK Shrine Encounters Turbulence | 261 |
56 | Florida Near Cedar Key: The Missing Town of Rosewood | 266 |
57 | South Carolina Beech Island: The Beech Island Agricultural Club Was Hardly What the Marker Implies | 268 |
58 | South Carolina Fort Mill: To the Loyal Slaves | 273 |
59 | South Carolina Columbia: Who Burned Columbia? | 279 |
60 | North Carolina Bentonville Battlefield: The Last Major Confederate Offensive of The Civil War | 288 |
61 | Virginia Alexandria: The Invisible Slave Trade | 290 |
62 | Virginia Alexandria: The Clash of the Martyrs | 294 |
63 | Virginia Richmond: "One of the Great Female Spies of all Times" | 298 |
64 | Virginia Richmond: Slavery and Redemption | 302 |
65 | Virginia Richmond: The Liberation of Richmond | 305 |
66 | Virginia Richmond: Abraham Lincoln Walks through Richmond | 310 |
67 | Virginia Appomattox: Getting Even the Numbers Wrong | 317 |
68 | Virginia Stickleyville: A Sign of Good Breeding | 320 |
The Atlantic States | ||
69 | West Virginia Union: Is California West of the Alleghenies? | 325 |
70 | District of Columbia Jefferson Memorial: Juxtaposing Quotations to Misrepresent a Founding Father | 327 |
71 | District of Columbia Lincoln Memorial: A Product of Its Time and All Time | 333 |
72 | Maryland Hampton: "No History To Tell" | 338 |
73 | Delaware Reliance: The Reverse Underground Railroad | 352 |
74 | Pennsylvania Philadelphia: Telling Amusing Incidents for the Tourists | 357 |
75 | Pennsylvania Valley Forge: George Washington's Desperate Prayer | 362 |
76 | Pennsylvania Lancaster: "You're Here to See the House" | 367 |
77 | Pennsylvania Gettysburg: South Carolina Defines the Civil War in 1965 | 371 |
78 | Pennsylvania Philadelphia: Remember The "Splendid Little War" -- Forget the Tawdry Larger Wars | 377 |
79 | Pennsylvania Philadelphia: Celebrating Illegal Submarine Warfare | 381 |
80 | New Jersey Trenton: The Pilgrims and Religious Freedom | 383 |
81 | New York Manhattan: Making Native Americans Look Stupid | 385 |
82 | New York Alabama: Which George Washington? | 389 |
83 | New York North Elba: John Brown's Plaque Puts Blacks at the Bottom! | 390 |
84 | New York Manhattan: The Union League Club: Traitors to Their Own Cause | 394 |
85 | New York Manhattan: Selective Memory at USS Intrepid | 404 |
New England | ||
86 | Connecticut Darien: Omitting the Town's Continuing Claim to Fame | 408 |
87 | Massachusetts Boston: The Problem of the Common | 413 |
88 | Massachusetts Amherst: Celebrating Genocide | 415 |
89 | Massachusetts Boston: What a Monument Ought to Be | 419 |
90 | Vermont Burlington: Shards of Minstrelsy on a Far-North Campus | 425 |
91 | New Hampshire Peterborough and Dublin: Local History Wars | 430 |
92 | New Hampshire Concord: "Effective Political Leader" | 433 |
93 | Rhode Island Block Island: "Settlement" Means Fewer People! | 436 |
94 | Rhode Island Warren and Barrington: Fighting over the "Good Indian" | 438 |
95 | Maine Bar Harbor: At Last -- An Accurate Marker | 442 |
Snowplow Revisionism | 443 | |
Getting into a Dialogue with the Landscape | 447 | |
Appendices | ||
A | Selecting the Sites | 455 |
B | Ten Questions to Ask at a Historic Site | 459 |
C | Twenty Candidates For "Toppling" | 460 |
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